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Intro
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SC3 came up big.
Help desk and set up/tear down.
As a pastor it is encouraging to see our people serving before being fed.
I loved seeing that many of our folks were there investigating how we might grow as a church.
More disciples, better disciples.
One thing I’m sure of; we don’t need another program.
There isn’t a program or an outreach or a service format that is going to help us to be everything Jesus would have for us to be.
There are some mindset changes that need to take place, but culture changes slowly.
If we are to be everything Jesus intends for us to be (all in favor?), we’re going to have to let Scripture sink further into our hearts and intentions.
It has to be part of our very lives.
When Jesus says, “We are to love our neighbors as ourselves,” we are to love our neighbors as ourselves.
Profound huh?
When we take his words as marching orders, we’ll become the church he’d have us to be.
For the first time in our nations history (Billy Joel)...
Explain church movement from center of town to perceived irrelevance.
As it has moved out and truth has been minimized, the church has lost ground.
Mention mega-church model.
We thought if the show was good enough we could explain the truth.
They moved out as people moved further out, they weren’t at the center of town anymore but they were still part and parcel with life.
Today, we are in a similar position to the early church.
Christianity is a foreign concept that is viewed with scorn and suspicion.
There has never been a time in history when genuine Christianity has been needed, more than now!
The Restoration movement has never been needed more than now!
Last week Kevin came in and preached.
Yeast and Mustard seeds.
Small but mighty.
Odd thing about yeast and mustard seeds, they are always seen as negatives in Scripture.
This week we’ll talk about a change of mindset that we have to have.
We have to move from “come and see” to “go and be.”
Next week we’ll talk about some of the radical expectations of being a good neighbor.
Finally, we’ll talk about some practical application for obeying Jesus in loving our neighbors.
We have affectionately called it; stop being weird.
Transition
Open your Bibles to .
Its the sixth book of the NT.
To understand we have to get a grasp for how Romans works.
It’s a complex letter with a tightly organized argument.
You need a savior.
Your sin issue is much greater than you think!
That salvation only comes by faith.
Justification.
Because of that great salvation, we are free from the wrath of God, sin, the law, and death.
Now God has brought together Jews and Gentiles who trust him by faith and made one new people called the church.
That’s .
With that in mind, we look at .
Text
We have to start here because we have to realize that we need a mind-shift, a mind renewal.
This is the foundation.
In light of God’s mercy…our lives become living sacrifices.
Not our Sunday mornings…our lives.
That means:
The way I live next to, around, with my neighbors, is to be God’s.
My BBQ grill is to be used for the glory of God.
My back porch is to be used for the glory of God.
My living room is to be used for the glory of God.
The conversations I have out in our court are to be for the glory of God.
This is holy and pleasing to God.
This is true and proper worship.
Therefore..., be a living sacrifice.
Faith in God’s work through Jesus Christ generates the Spirits renewal in our lives.
It drives us to be obedient to the demands of the gospel.
Jesus changes us and we are driven to change the world.
Don’t conform to the pattern of this world.
When it comes to neighboring, the world has a pattern.
That pattern says associate with people as it fits you.
Most of the time it is easier to close your doors and stay safe, you can live a virtual existence through a computer screen.
Jesus says, “Go love your neighbors.”
That’s a hard pill to swallow.
I don’t know about you but I can keep up with something for a bit but I’ve been so formed by the world that I have a pattern myself.
I’m an introvert, my home is my safe spot.
Shut the door, keep everyone out.
Like the old Eddy Arnold song, “Make the world go away.”
But Jesus still says, “love your neighbors.”
How well do we do that?
Let me ask you a question.
If God answered all of your prayers for the last month, would any of you neighbor’s eternal destiny be changed?
Would anyone’s?
That’s why Paul says that we have to be transformed.
Its in the present passive.
That means, it’s ongoing now and its something that happens to us.
We don’t generate it.
When we worship, serve, and immerse ourselves in God’s word, He changes us.
That’s when we recognize his will for us.
Far too many Christians think they are looking for God’s will but really they are grasping at anything they can to stamp a “God’s will” approval on what they’ve already decided they want to do.
Example: I really see God’s hand in this whole process.
We looked at this house on the corner of King and Cross street!
They neighbors have a fish on the back of their car!
God’s will isn’t a dot on a map that I have to land on or my life is out of God’s will.
God’s word tells me that God’s will is that I love him with all my heart, soul, mind, and strength, and that I love my neighbor as myself.
Well, who is my neighbor?
Let me tell you this; however I define it, it will be pretty hard to get around the fact that my neighbor is the person living next to me.
We have to have a fundamental change in the way we think.
Transition
VV. 3-13 talk about the unity of the church and Christian ethics but at the end of 13, Paul transitions to those who aren’t Christians.
In light of God’s mercy...
Open your lives, be hospitable, to those around you.
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said the church was to be salt and light.
Light provides safety and shows truth
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